It’s almost summer vacation and since most of this year was
more or less a vacation for me
(hello “adult gap year”), I don’t feel the need
to count down the seconds until summer like I have in years past. Of course,
I’m still super pumped for this school year to end and to go to the beach everyday and just chill out. I mean, that’s the life, isn’t it? But for the
first time in like forever, I don’t have any solidified summer plans. Usually I
plan a long-ish trip and a visit home to Chicago with a few other things in
there, but because I still don’t know what the fall holds for me, I can’t
really plan anything. (And I can cross that trip home to Chicago off the list because,
hey, I live here now!!) I mean sure, I could plan a million things,
like a big Europe trip again and have an amazing time, but financially, it may not be the
smartest thing to do until I know that I will have a steady paycheck come
September. Plus, this is my first actual full adult summer living in Chicago
and #SummerTimeChi ain’t no joke so I’m ready to dive in head first. I’ve had
some FOMO over the last decade seeing things my friends who lived here were
doing while I was in NYC. Of course I was doing some very awesome summer NYC
things too, but part of me always felt like I was missing out on all the
amazingly fun looking Chicago events. And now it’s finally my turn. Woohoo!!
